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Obedience

,—that obsequiousness and blind submission which in countries on the decline of freedom men in power demand from the People. When Paul le Mesurier demanded (according to the ancient custom of his nation) housekeepers to imprison their lodgers, he demanded political obedience.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Obedience